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[thebestnose]

I'm starting to notice an imbalance when it comes to education. Not that I feel there was a lack in my own- after all, what more can they teach you when they don't know anything themselves- but that there is an emphasis on education in other places that there isn't where I am

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[thebestnose]

You go to school to teach. What do you learn at a school like that?

And why did you waste all the time learning about it if you weren't going to use it in the first place?

[thebestnose]

What can you learn at a university that you cannot learn on your own?

[blesseddumbfuck]

I didn't attend a school. Not like you mean. My mother and father taught me, and others. I learned the Law and how to speak Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. When I became a man, I learned to be a stonemason.

After that, I traveled. I learned to mix poisons and make love and fight and to control my nocturnal emissions. Kung Fu, the Kama Sutra, Jew-do, meditation, yak shaving.

I also learned about humanity. I learned what loneliness is, and what forgiveness is.

Education doesn't stop in schools. I am still learning.

[thebestnose]

No, it doesn't. It doesn't even really occur in schools. You learned all of that [most of it she doesn't know] during your life. That is real education.

Whatever they teach you in a classroom is normally useless compared to what you can learn outside of it.

[blesseddumbfuck]

I have never been in a classroom. I wouldn't know.

I doubt they teach you to make love, though.

[thebestnose]

To make...love?

[whattheytellyou]

Where I'm from, everyone attends school for thirteen years. Elementary, middle, and secondary. From there, they have the option of attending a college or university for higher learning.

In my own case, I attended the University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley, respectively, because I wanted to specialize in my current field of study.

I'm not sure how to answer your other questions. You want to know about the education system in our worlds, but it seems to me you've already drawn your own conclusions.

[thebestnose]

I have, based on the information I've gained from others.

But if you have something to counter that conclusion, I'd like to hear it.

[whattheytellyou]

My teachers and colleagues are all intelligent, educated people. I've learned a lot from them. I feel that I was adequately prepared for my career path thanks to the education I received. In my opinion.

Unfortunately, I can't counter your opinion without substantial evidence. Second-hand anecdotes aren't definitive proof that I'm not just leaping to their defense.

[thebestnose]

I'm not attacking you. It's just a question.

[19centconstable]

We've got colleges, but only rich ponces go. And a few ladies. There are some trade schools though.

[thebestnose]

What's a ponce?

And what's a trade school?

[19centconstable]

Oh. Er. A fellow who...isn't manly.

A trade school is where you'd go to learn to do a job. Like my cousin goes to a stenography school so someone will hire her as a secretary.

[thebestnose]

It isn't manly to go to school?

[young_idealist]

Education wasn't universal in my time, but I had one. My sister went to a convent school, and I did get into university to study law. I wasn't able to finish though.

[thebestnose]

How do you study law?

And what's a convent school?

[young_idealist]

Law is the rules of the government. People can study it to become judges and lawyers. Judges make decisions about possible crimes against the law, and lawyers put together the cases for or against those decisions.

And a convent school is a special boarding school where nuns are the teachers.

[thebestnose]

You have to go to school for that?

Oh. A nun. I know what a nun is.